Rodrigo Duterte

The ruling opens the way to an investigation of extrajudicial killings, but trials of Philippine officials remain a remote prospect.

The decision came after Leila De Lima was acquitted on the second of three politically motivated drug cases last month.

The former top diplomat spearheaded Manila's landmark legal challenge to China's expansive claims over the South China Sea.

This is the first such meeting to take place since late in the administration of President Benigno Aquino III.

Theary Seng of Cambodia and Leila de Lima of the Philippines have both been imprisoned for standing up for truth and justice.

Last week, the International Criminal Court ordered the restarting of its investigation into former President Rodrigo Duterte's violent "war on drugs."

Last month, a court accepted the petition of Lenin Baylon's father seeking to correct the cause of death listed on his death certificate.

The National Union of Peoples’ Lawyers says that 133 lawyers have been killed in the Philippines since 1984, 59 of them over the past six years.

The "near death experience," as former Senator Leila de Lima characterized it, highlights the peril she has faced since her imprisonment on spurious drug charges in 2017.

The leader promised to emphasize education and rehabilitation, but repeated that he would not cooperate with an ICC probe into extrajudicial killings.

Manila has repeated its claim that The Hague-based court has no jurisdiction over anti-drug killings committed under President Rodrigo Duterte.

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